Games like Cain × Nica
If Cain × Nica is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bistro Days, 夢現しろっぷ - Dreamy Syrup - and Jake's Love Story — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Cain × Nica: "Cain x Nica" is a post-apocalyptic story of love, sacrifice and the unbreakable human spirit. In the world of eternal winter, Cain and his little sister Nica do their best to fight the poverty and find happiness. And they'll get there, no matter what it takes. Game length - 8-10 hours.
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Bistro Days
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Top pick for Cain × Nica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Cain × Nica.
Eat, drink, and fall in love at Bellflower Bistro. Bistro Days is a fun, over-the-top romantic story with choice-driven plots and multiple endings.
夢現しろっぷ - Dreamy Syrup -
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cain × Nica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
A visual novel featuring VTuber "Amau Syrup" as the lead actress! A heart-racing youthful love comedy adventure where ‘Dreams’ and ‘Reality’ intertwine!
Jake's Love Story
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Third-strongest match for Cain × Nica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
Everyday life comedy, where your choices matter.
A Sky Full of Stars 仰望夜空的星辰
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Ranked #4 for Cain × Nica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
The starry sky spreads far and wide overhead... This story full of love, comedy, and excitement follows our protagonist and his stargazing friends as they grow together. "A Sky Full of Stars" is a coming-of-age astronomy tale by the same team who brought you "If My Heart Had Wings".
Date Everything!
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Ranked #5 for Cain × Nica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cain × Nica.
Date Everything! is a sandbox dating simulator set in the comfort of your own home, featuring 100 fully voice acted datable characters! Let the romance flow between your bed, smoke alarm and… Overwhelming Sense of Existential Dread? Are you ready to Date Everything?
Ethereal Enigma
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Ranked #6 for Cain × Nica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cain × Nica.
A choice-driven, slice of life visual novel featuring full voice-over and an intricate relationship system!
WTF Is Wrong With You?
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Ranked #7 for Cain × Nica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
Have you ever wondered WTF Is Wrong With You? Well, so have we... Let's find out together, shall we?
I Wani Hug that Gator!
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Ranked #8 for Cain × Nica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Cain × Nica.
I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cain × Nica at current Steam store prices.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~63% under Cain × Nica on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cain × Nica.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~75% under Cain × Nica on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cain × Nica.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~88% under Cain × Nica on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cain × Nica.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~75% under Cain × Nica on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~63% under Cain × Nica on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~88% under Cain × Nica on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cain × Nica.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~88% under Cain × Nica on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Superflight
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Priced ~63% under Cain × Nica on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cain × Nica.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Cain × Nica.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cain × Nica.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from Aleksey Izimov
Other recommendable Steam games by Aleksey Izimov, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Alone With You
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Another title from Aleksey Izimov, the studio behind Cain × Nica. Shares Casual with Cain × Nica.
Rei is a high-school student who isn't popular among girls. But suddenly his life changes: two beautiful girls started to pay attention to him. Will he make the right choice or is he doomed to be alone?
Winter With You
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Another title from Aleksey Izimov, the studio behind Cain × Nica. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
Naoki was really excited about spending Christmas with his beloved. But those plans weren't meant to be - Naoki saw her hugging another guy. Christmas seems ruined but just one random encounter can change everything. This is a Japanese-style kinetic visual novel about Christmas.
Summer With You
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Another title from Aleksey Izimov, the studio behind Cain × Nica. Shares Simulation with Cain × Nica.
A Japanese-style visual novel. A gripping story with four endings, a huge number of choices, 10+ CG, 5+ BG, original music and animated sprites of the main characters will allow you to immerse yourself in a cruel world of deception and sincerity, betrayal and loyalty, happiness and despair.
Sky in your eyes
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Another title from Aleksey Izimov, the studio behind Cain × Nica. Shares Simulation with Cain × Nica.
Visual novel about the life in the post-soviet country. Cute artstyle, 10 animated CGs, 5 BGs and 5 chibi CGs in 4k, English voice-over for each heroine, animated live2d sprites, original OSTs and a dramatic story!
No:Worse
WHY THIS
Another title from Aleksey Izimov, the studio behind Cain × Nica. Shares Casual with Cain × Nica.
"No:Worse" is a beautiful love story unfolding between two vulnerable individuals with kind but fragile hearts. Throughout it, you will encounter moments of despair, heartbreak, and deceit. And conquering these flaws lies entirely in your hands.
Last Resort
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Another title from Aleksey Izimov, the studio behind Cain × Nica. Shares Simulation with Cain × Nica.
Dive into the mysterious world of the "Last Resort", a non-linear visual novel where past and future are woven together. His life’s breaking under the weight of life problems. Unable to fight any further, He decides to take his final journey. Will it change anything? Or will it lead Him to the end?
Stolen Memories
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Another title from Aleksey Izimov, the studio behind Cain × Nica. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cain × Nica.
Hot girls are distracting you from your studies, but you still have to get into the prestigious university! Love or money - which would you choose? Or maybe both? Find out in Stolen Memories - a unique harem visual novel with cute girls!
Debauched Memories
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Another title from Aleksey Izimov, the studio behind Cain × Nica. Shares Casual with Cain × Nica.
The emptiness of the chosen path entangles souls, preventing them from moving forward. The quiet, unbearably gentle withering continues, and only hope can stop it. Only hope can bring the smile to her face once more. "Debauched Memories" is a non-linear visual novel with multiple endings.
Frequently asked about Cain × Nica
- How much does Cain × Nica cost?
- Cain × Nica is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cain × Nica?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cain × Nica are Bistro Days, 夢現しろっぷ - Dreamy Syrup -, Jake's Love Story.
- Who developed Cain × Nica?
- Cain × Nica was developed by Aleksey Izimov.
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